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- 11 Oct 2016
- News
Joke your way to success
- 11 Jan 2017
- News
Research: Cracking a Joke at Work Can Make You Seem More Competent
- 24 Jan 2017
- News
The Joke That Makes or Breaks You at Work
- Article
Research: Cracking a Joke at Work Can Make You Seem More Competent
Brooks, Alison Wood. "Research: Cracking a Joke at Work Can Make You Seem More Competent." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 11, 2017).
- 14 Mar 2017
- News
Cracking a Joke At Work Can Have a Surprising Payoff
- 2014
- Working Paper
Risky Business: Humor Can Increase Perceptions of Status, but Only If the Jokes Are Funny
By: B.T. Bitterly, A.W. Brooks and M.E. Schweitzer
- 09 Jun 2020
- News
The Unfair Coach
- 21 Jun 2021
- News
Kominers’ Conundrums: Celebrating Dads and Their Sense of Humor
- March 2017
- Article
Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status
By: T. B. Bitterly, A.W. Brooks and M. E. Schweitzer
Across eight experiments, we demonstrate that humor can influence status, but attempting to use humor is risky. The successful use of humor can increase status in both new and existing relationships, but unsuccessful humor attempts (e.g., inappropriate jokes) can harm... View Details
Bitterly, T. B., A.W. Brooks, and M. E. Schweitzer. "Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 112, no. 3 (March 2017): 431–455.
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
Are you ready for a robot boss? Many workers say that yes, they are
- 22 Dec 2016
- News
Target's Expensive Cybersecurity Mistake
- 04 Oct 2016
- News
Using Humor in the Office: When It Works, When It Backfires
- October 2019
- Article
Making Sense of Recommendations
By: Michael Yeomans, Anuj Shah, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jon Kleinberg
Computer algorithms are increasingly being used to predict people's preferences and make recommendations. Although people frequently encounter these algorithms because they are cheap to scale, we do not know how they compare to human judgment. Here, we compare computer... View Details
Keywords: Recommender Systems; Artificial Intelligence; Interpretability; Information Technology; Forecasting and Prediction; Decision Making; Attitudes
Yeomans, Michael, Anuj Shah, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Jon Kleinberg. "Making Sense of Recommendations." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 32, no. 4 (October 2019): 403–414.
- Article
Stop the Meeting Madness: How to Free Up Time for Meaningful Work
By: Leslie Perlow, Constance Noonan Hadley and Eunice Eun
Many executives feel overwhelmed by meetings, and no wonder: On average, they spend nearly 23 hours a week in them, up from less than 10 hours in the 1960s. What’s more, the meetings are often poorly timed, badly run, or both. We can all joke about how painful they... View Details
Keywords: Time Management; Performance Efficiency; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement
Perlow, Leslie, Constance Noonan Hadley, and Eunice Eun. "Stop the Meeting Madness: How to Free Up Time for Meaningful Work." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 4 (July–August 2017): 62–69.
- November 2008
- Supplement
Differences at Work: Sameer (B)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Sameer (B) HBS Case No. 9-609-054, Sameer leaves the firm at the summer's end without confronting his employer about the jokes and wondering whether he made the right choice. Later Sameer's former employer calls him to apologize for their... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility; Resignation and Termination; Working Conditions; Opportunities; Behavior
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Sameer (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-054, November 2008.
- 03 Mar 2015
- News
Is Social Media Actually Helping Your Company’s Bottom Line?
- 17 Jul 2017
- News
‘The Wisdom of Finance’, by Mihir Desai
- 05 Jul 2017
- News
Stop the Meeting Madness
- Research Summary
The Psychology of Conversation
Conversation is a profound part of the human experience. To share our ideas, thoughts, and feelings with each other, we converse face to face and remotely—via phone, email, text message, online comment boards, and in contracts. Conversations form the bedrock of our... View Details